Exodus 2:16-20

International Standard Version

¹⁶ Meanwhile, the seven daughters of a certain Midianite priest would come to draw water in order to fill water troughs for their father’s sheep. ¹⁷ Some shepherds came to drive them away, but Moses got up, came to their rescue, and watered their sheep. ¹⁸ When they returned to their father Reuel,^[a] he asked, “Why have you returned so quickly today?”

¹⁹ “An Egyptian rescued us from the shepherds,”^[b] they replied, “and he even drew water for us and watered the sheep!”

²⁰ “Then where is he?” He asked his daughters. “Why did you leave the man behind? Go invite him to have something to eat.”^[c]